Research, funding and commercial experience in one team

Dr Chloe Sharp

Chloe helps founders understand their customers, strengthen their funding case and develop a viable route to market. Her experience spans customer research, product management, commercial strategy, leadership and innovation funding.

She has supported more than 300 founders and innovation-led SMEs and helped clients secure over £10m in non-dilutive funding. She holds a PhD in psychology, behavioural science and sociology, and is the author of Make Products That Matter, an exited founder, an angel investor, an ILM7-qualified coach and an Innovate UK assessor.

Simon Sharp

Simon works with growing, innovation-led businesses developing new products, services, technologies or ways of working, and helps them turn those ideas into measurable results. His focus is what happens around and after the decision: product management and testing, process and workflow design, delivery and evaluation, and fractional support.

AI may form part of the solution, but the starting point is the business problem: the people who have to use the solution, and the commercial value it needs to create. Before Sharp Insights, Simon spent 11 years at Mercedes-Benz UK leading multimillion-pound projects and the business cases behind them. He is a Help to Grow mentor.

Milo

Focused on the well-being of all employees, customers and givers of scritches. Milo always puts the customer first, unless there is ‘chicken’ or ‘ball’, then they come first.

An excellent, active listener, Milo encourages a “back to nature” approach, favouring walking meetings and a regenerative leadership style. Deeply motivated by eco-friendly topics, he believes we should be in the woods anytime we are not asleep.

What he lacks in meeting etiquette, he makes up for in tail wags.

His favourite quote: “Behind every great company, there is a great dog.”